<TITLE>12. Par 34-36</TITLE>L-34 I can imagine seeing this sage as he was out, our character this afternoon, Simeon, in prayer. And the Bible said that it was revealed to him by the Holy Ghost that he wasn't going to see death until he seen the Lord's Christ. And he believed it. That's the beauty part. He believed it. And he wasn't ashamed, or neither did he regard his prestige as a teacher.
No doubt but the old man then, probably as we would say, today, "with one foot in the grave," eighty something years old, and he'd go one and say, "Brethren, you know the Holy Ghost told me that I wasn't going to die until I seen the Lord's Christ. It's at hand."
You know what the other priests would've probably said, the unbelieving? "You know, the old man's just a little bit gone off in the head. Now, look at him. When David looked for Him, all the prophets looked for Him, and this old man, almost dead now, and us, in this kind of a time, and then saying he will see the Christ. There's something wrong with him." There was. He believed God. He wasn't ashamed to testify.
He said, "It was revealed to me by the Holy Ghost, that I'm not going to see death until I see the Lord's Christ, and I believe it." And he wasn't ashamed to tell it. Now, there's not no two Holy Ghosts; there's only one.

L-35 Now, let's give a little drama now. It's on Monday morning, and the women are all coming in. There was around two million Jews in Palestine at that time. Perhaps, maybe, two hundred babies was born every day, male babies, maybe more. But then, according to the Jewish law the mother was to come after eight days, and bring her male child, and was to offer an offering of purification for herself, and the child must be circumcised in order to be an Israelite, and with the covenant with Abraham. As they kept watching for the coming of the Messiah...
It's Monday morning, oh, it's busy in the temple. Hundreds are coming and going. And Simeon, he feels strange. He goes over in the prayer room to pray awhile. Do you ever stop and talk to Him when you feel kinda strange like that? He goes over in the prayer room to talk to God awhile.

L-36 Along this long line of mothers standing over on the right hand side of the temple, just under the big olive wood Cherubims, with their locked wings... Along there stands two hundred mothers, we say. And some of them are standing with lovely little babies in fine needle work, little pink shawls on, and little blue shawls, detecting the--what they thought about the little baby, and the little fine needlework, and the things that they had, the mothers in the little dainties.
Let's look along that line. But one of the most curious sights I've seen, stands along there. There stands a little girl, about eighteen years old. And I mean people were keeping their distance from her. I hear a woman say, "Don't stand around where she's at. That baby was born without a--a father, holy wedlock. That baby was born before, was to be here before they were even married."
But the little mother, holding the baby in her arms, a peasants offering... You know a rich child could offer a lamb. But if they were poor, they could offer two turtledoves. So the mother, perhaps had two turtledove to make the offering.


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